Dance

  • Capoeira / LUKAS WINNERS 2011

    Baris Yazar - Brazilian Dance Teacher of the Year (Capoeira)

    "I am London. Who I am and what I do is a result of the multiculturalism that this city prides it's self on and I am the living proof and very thankful for those Londoners before me who fought to make this possible."

  • Tango / LUKAS WINNERS 2011

    Maria and Guillermo - Tango Performers and Teachers of the Year

    Guillermo from Rosario, Argentina and Maria from Athens, form the Newcastle base Tango Unlimited

  • Salsa / Top Ten...

    Kerry's Top Ten Tracks for Salsa Dancers

    The best tracks to dance to, according to Key2Cuba's Kerry, the lady who knows her stuff when it comes to getting into the salsa groove

  • Salsa / opinion

    A Deeper Love

    In Part two of her response to the article 'Did Salsa dancers KIll Salsa Music', Kerry Ribchester argues that Britain's love affair with Salsa (Cuban salsa atleast) has not died but evolved. Like with any true love, there are diferent stages: after an initial craze a deeper relationship evolves. And our appreciation for the music is part of the new mature phase of this relationship.

  • Ballet / Interviews

    Acosting Fame

    Carlos Acosta, arguably the best ballet dancer of his generation and London’s most famous Latino, looks back on his thirteen years in London, during which he went from the Royal Ballet's principle dancer to global ballet mega-star, on a par with Mikhail Baryshnikov and Rudolf Nureyef. With Hollywood studios knocking on his door, Carlos contemplates, exclusively to Candela, how London helped make him the legend he's become, life after the Royal Ballet and Cuba's after Castro.

  • Capoeira / Features

    To Flip or not to Flip? The Capoeira Debate

    Tradition versus progress. Authenticity versus evolution. In tackling the great Capoeira debate – whether acrobatics orientated Capoeira means abandoning its roots - Helen Lima de Sousa goes to the core of what Capoeira, and tradition, really is.

  • Flamenco / Profiles

    The Passion Lives On

    In conjunction with their performance of Fuenteovejuna at Sadler's Wells, the dancers of the Antonio Gades company will be giving a free workshop to mere mortals at the Instituto Cervantes. Vera King uncovers the legendary Flamenco dancer and choreographer, founder of this great company, who most famously brought us Carmen to the film screen.

  • Salsa / Features

    Did Salsa Dancers Kill Salsa Music?

    Salsa promoters and musicians alike are lamenting the demise of live Salsa music as a culture and commodity people will pay to see. Some even blame the salsa dance and club culture which, they say, got cliquey with its over-technical criteria and hierarchy. In this investigation we explore the issue and open up the debate for the first time. Where do you stand in it?

  • Contemporary / Interviews

    Only Room for One Latin Diva?

    Ever since Yanet Fuentes, the only Latin American ever to grace the UK’s prime-time talent shows, left the BBC’s 'So You Think You Can Dance', the blogosphere has been awash with outrage at judge Sisco Gomez's comment. The Colombian-Brit’s conspicuously personal attack as Yanet opened the show apparently sealed her fate. Was it a case of protecting his spot as the UK danceworld's favoured Latin Diva? In her most revealing interview yet, Yanet gave us the inside story

  • Capoeira / Features

    Freedom Control

    Whilst the dazzling visual impact of muscular control and freedom can be startling and seductive, Tam Davidson peels away the mysticism of Capoeira to reveal its’ development through one people’s struggle against slavery.

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